Subject: Re: [boost] question/guidence regarding merge to master
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-01-11 15:26:06
On 1/11/19 6:21 PM, Robert Ramey via Boost wrote:
> On 1/11/19 7:16 AM, Andrey Semashev via Boost wrote:
> \
>> To illustrate, just the other day I had to track down a change in
>> Boost.Filesystem so that I could tell a user when a bug appeared in
>> the code and when it was fixed. I was able to do that, both in terms
>> of Boost realeases and commits with their respective commit messages
>> and dates, because I had a fine grained history with tags. I was able
>> to track down the particular PRs, if I had to. I think, this is an
>> important feature of the detailed git history.
>
> Right - but couldn't you have done that with the develop History?
No, because release tags are applied to the commits in master that are
used to ship a Boost release.